My first non official release! I didn’t know, the sleeve is nice, the sound is ok, I had much worse on some official release, for instance I will resell a Godspeed You Black Emperor record because the sound is absolutely crappy. I will not give away the name of my record dealer because they are just great and I don’t want them to have any problem that’s for sure, but now that I see that this reissue is banned from selling on amazon, fnac, bol.com and even discogs (!) I feel lucky to have it. In the end this is the band or label fault: how can we wait for 20 or 30 years before the album is reissued? It is a scandal! Anyway, this is my preferred Smashing Pumpkins album by far, in my opinion all songs are a superb, either heavy or gentle, both styles go well together, 10/10, which is not at all the critics / web opinion but I don’t care, it’s mine!
Review of the 17th of Nov 25 on Insta: “Never saw such a controversy about a cult 90’s album: first about the album itself, releasing Machina not in it’s entirety at the time, record label decision bla bla, then about the fact that it was supposed to be the first bad album of smashing pumpkins (well, sorry, it is my preferred album!) and eventually about the crapy sound of this non official release (I like the sound, and by the way this is punk related music, right, since when shall we have a pure sound as if it is classical music?) and last but not least about the allegedly bad sound quality of the 2025 official release (I will keep my non official one though ahah) – overall I love it! What about you?”
Concert And Vinyl 